1. Relative dating exercise on the board.
Simple example first with stick people drawings - put in age order
Draw rock layers with fossils - identify youngest, oldest etc.
2. Radiometric dating explanation and discussion
3. Determining a Rock's Age lab (pg. 386)
4. Computer lab to graph the 1/2 life data from the lab
Wednesday Feb 4th
Intro to Natural Selection
1. Biology in Motion interactive computer lab on natural selection using fictitious Blue Grabbers
1. Relative dating exercise on the board.
Simple example first with stick people drawings - put in age order
Draw rock layers with fossils - identify youngest, oldest etc.
2. Radiometric dating explanation and discussion
3. Determining a Rock's Age lab (pg. 386)
4. Computer lab to graph the 1/2 life data from the lab
1. Biology in Motion interactive computer lab on natural selection using fictitious Blue Grabbers
2. Questions and discussion of activity
1. Finish Blue Grabber lab
2. Create data tables and graphs in excel
3. Results and conclusion only lab write up
4. Email to me by end of class for lab grade